Black Imagination and the Middle Passage (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series).)
Contributors: Maria Diedrich (Editor); Henry Louis Gates (Editor); Carl Pedersen (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 14, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780195126402
First sentence: In the aftermath of the failed 1848 revolutions in Europe, one of the leading members of the Russian radical intelligentsia, Alexander Herzen, summed up the mood of disillusionment and distrust of the idea of progress among many of the Russian intelligentsia in a striking passage in his tract From the Other Shore: "If humanity went straight to some goal," he wrote, "there would be no history, only logic."